We currently have friends from Germany staying with us who have just come from visiting other friends in Maine. I had to explain what they experienced in the state to them, because they thought it would be like Vermont…I had to use the analogy of Portland versus eastern Oregon.

Other way around (relatively speaking). It was a three-way race both times with a Democrat and an independent who was basically a Democrat splitting the left vote, but Lepage won with ~38% of the vote in 2010. The second time it was closer to 49%.

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Other way around. First time around he got 38% of the vote and the democratic/liberal vote was split between two candidates (second place got 36% of the vote and lost by only 7,500 votes, so they would have likely won). Second time was a similar situation, but LePoop got 48% of the vote and a much more clear victory.

I feel like LePaige is watching the Trump gang having a big fun racist party and he’s stuck up in Maine, waving his arms and saying “hey hey hey! I’m super racist, honest! Do you need a Secretary of State, or, anything really. Call me! You’ve got my number, right?”

"I want you to prove the assertion - that you didn’t make - that I’m a racist! No, wait, never mind, I’ll do it myself!"
The irony is that not only is his assertion that 90% of drug crime is being done by black people totally false, black people in the state aren’t any more likely to possess drugs than white people, but they are four times more likely to be arrested for drug possession (edit: and 9 times more likely to be arrested for selling drugs, even though they’re no more likely to be doing that, either). Which means the only real problem in the state is with law enforcement.

It’s anything but ‘latent’. I don’t get it. I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Maine and it didn’t seem anything like MIssissippi, culturally speaking. Who votes for this guy? I’m not speaking only of the racism, but the delusions.

And he demanded that the guy keep and distribute the voice mail. Either he was being sarcastic, or he didn’t see anything wrong with his angry, profanity-ridden tirade. Given what he says on the record, I’m guessing the latter.

nungesser:

I feel like LePaige is watching the Trump gang

No doubt - but I suspect that he, like so many others in the country, just saw Trump and thought, “Finally, I can let my racism all hang out in public!”

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